A woman who had more than twice the legal limit of alcohol in her system when she crashed her car in Commerce City and killed her 11-month-old daughter has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Charlene Sunshine Munoz-Trujillo, 37, pleaded guilty to child abuse resulting in death Friday and was immediately sentenced, Sue Lindsay, spokeswoman for District Attorney Dave Young, said in a news release.

Munoz-Trujillo had a blood alcohol content of 0.214 when she allegedly grabbed her daughter, Isabella Jimenez, “threw” her into her Mercedes and drove off in a rage after a July 28 argument with the baby’s father.

She then plowed into a parked Dodge Ram pickup truck in the 6500 block of East 80th Avenue. Isabella Jimenez, who was not in a child seat, was ejected from the car. The baby sustained catastrophic head injuries in the crash and was pronounced dead at Children’s Hospital.

Munoz-Trujillo continued to drive the Mercedes across 80th Avenue and struck a power pole. The Colorado State Patrol estimated that she was driving at least 67 mph at the time of the crash. The speed limit was 30 mph.

“This was not an accident,” Deputy District Attorney Christopher Rhamey said at the sentencing hearing, according to the news release. “She didn’t put her child in a car seat. That baby was free-floating in that vehicle when it crashed. Twenty years is not a sentence that embodies the loss of a life so young.”

Charges of vehicular homicide and drunken driving were dismissed against Munoz-Trujillo in a plea deal.

Kirk Mitchell is a general assignment reporter at The Denver Post who focuses on criminal justice stories. He began working at the newspaper in 1998, after writing for newspapers in Mesa, Ariz., and Twin Falls, Idaho, and The Associated Press in Salt Lake City. Mitchell first started writing the Cold Case blog in Fall 2007, in part because Colorado has more than 1,400 unsolved homicides.

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